All in all, there were over 860 issues treated in the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list can=1&q=milestone%3D1.4 Not all the changes are reported here, but this is to give you an impression. Thanks a lot for your participation. We all accomplished a huge task.
##Changes
- New code model: Ring
- Support for startUp preference script
- #class message is not a byte code anymore
- Better union and intersection methods
- Better primitive simulation
- Better headless support
- Better support for error at startup
- Introduction of FileSystem
- Less dependencies: Color, Scrollbar do not depend on Compiler anymore
- Cleaning tests
- Unload hostSystemsMenus
- More consistent API for browser opening
- No event pulling anymore
- More class comments
- Announcement driven system notification
- Better API for sharedPool
##Zinc Improvement
New mechanism for Zinc servers start/stop handling after system startUp/shutDown and a lot a lot and a lot more.
- Support Cherrypicking when merging
- Better timeProfilerBrowser
- Better MC commit error
- MC handles better dependencies
- Better Debugger
- Better Inspector
- Search in tools
- New Finder tool
- Cmd-Click for senders and implementors
- Senders and implementors deals with class
- Better tool registry
- Improvements for the FlatBrowser
- Better Transcripter
- Faster diffBuilder
- New version of OCompletion and Ecompletion that can play together and without code duplication.
##UI
- Better search
- MultiSelection improvements
- Drag and drop in multi selection list
- PluggableListMorph improvements
- PluggableListMorph selection on drag
- Iconic Button improvements
- PharoTheme
- Better CheckBox
- Enhanced PluggableButtonMorph
- Polymorph enhancements
- Deprecate PluggableListMorphOfMany
- Merged NewParagraph and MultiNewParagraph
- New Widget: Ticking list and widget
- LazyListMorph cleaning
- NewTextMorph and TextComposer improvements
- Improve behavior of MorphTreeMorph
- Removing NewTextMorph and related
- StringMorph
- Object
- Old HTTP code
- No references to Utilities
- Removed toolbuilder
- Restructure packages
- Canvas hierarchy
- MorphicModel
- Deprecate recentMessageSet
- Deprecate ImageSegment
- Deprecate MessageNames
- Deprecate TimeProfileBrowser
- Really cleaning messageSet and subclasses
- SystemChangeNotifier
- Removed Project
- Removed BlockContext , blue book old closure encodings
- Font downloading
- HandMorph
##Some Fixes
- Set growth with nil
- Better weak finalization
- isPrime fixed
- Compiler Fixes
- Russian characters in editor
- More class comments
- Fix drawing shadow morphs
- Trait support
- Fixed syntax hilighting
- Better pointersTo:
- Speedup MethodDictionary #rehash
- Compiler enhancements.
- Stream should not print its contents
- Progress bar
- InputSensor
- CombinedChar
- BytexTextConverter fixes